#niche — Public Fediverse posts

DEF CON Talk on Getting Started in IoT Hacking
We're mostly games here at Set Side B, the whole "retro, niche and indie" thing ya kno, but what is a game really? This is to say, we're not against linking to other kinds of computer, and even electronic, entertainment. That's the excuse reason I give for doing posts on old websites sometimes, and new sites done in
https://setsideb.com/getting-started-in-iot-hacking/
#niche #AndrewBellini #DEFCON #hacking #hardware #IoT #niche #presentation

Strong Bad Plays Mini Golf in VR
Once upon a time the types of people on the Internet skewed much smaller in number, and you could be reasonably assured that if you made, say, a Monty Python or a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy joke in forum company, nearly everyone reading it would get it, and probably also find it funny. Those days are long past, and in some w
https://setsideb.com/strong-bad-plays-mini-golf-in-vr/
#niche #homestarrunner #niche #sports #strongbad #VR #WalkaboutMiniGolf

Strong Bad Plays Mini Golf in VR
Once upon a time the types of people on the Internet skewed much smaller in number, and you could be reasonably assured that if you made, say, a Monty Python or a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy joke in forum company, nearly everyone reading it would get it, and probably also find it funny. Those days are long past, and in some w
https://setsideb.com/strong-bad-plays-mini-golf-in-vr/
#niche #homestarrunner #niche #sports #strongbad #VR #WalkaboutMiniGolf

Strong Bad Plays Mini Golf in VR
Once upon a time the types of people on the Internet skewed much smaller in number, and you could be reasonably assured that if you made, say, a Monty Python or a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy joke in forum company, nearly everyone reading it would get it, and probably also find it funny. Those days are long past, and in some w
https://setsideb.com/strong-bad-plays-mini-golf-in-vr/
#niche #homestarrunner #niche #sports #strongbad #VR #WalkaboutMiniGolf

Strong Bad Plays Mini Golf in VR
Once upon a time the types of people on the Internet skewed much smaller in number, and you could be reasonably assured that if you made, say, a Monty Python or a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy joke in forum company, nearly everyone reading it would get it, and probably also find it funny. Those days are long past, and in some w
https://setsideb.com/strong-bad-plays-mini-golf-in-vr/
#niche #homestarrunner #niche #sports #strongbad #VR #WalkaboutMiniGolf

Strong Bad Plays Mini Golf in VR
Once upon a time the types of people on the Internet skewed much smaller in number, and you could be reasonably assured that if you made, say, a Monty Python or a Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy joke in forum company, nearly everyone reading it would get it, and probably also find it funny. Those days are long past, and in some w
https://setsideb.com/strong-bad-plays-mini-golf-in-vr/
#niche #homestarrunner #niche #sports #strongbad #VR #WalkaboutMiniGolf

The Nine Endings of Star For Command
This post contains spoilers for the various endings of Star Fox Command.

Old... man? (Images in this post come from vgmuseum)

The always-excellent Hardcore Gaming 101 is currently working through the Star Fox series, due to the well-received remake of (the remake of) Star Fox 64, still generally regarded as t
https://setsideb.com/the-endings-of-star-for-command/
#niche #Endings #hardcoregaming101 #Kursed #niche #starfox #StarFoxCommand #VGMuseum

Monster Maze on Unused Zelda Maps
I started this post out intending to do a Multilink Monday, but within a few seconds of starting this video I came to realize, nah, this one deserves the spotlight all to itself. It's well made, seems to be constructed with a stable eye and doesn't seem hugely pandery... other than the big BACKROOMs intro card, I'm not a fan of that. But other
https://setsideb.com/multilink-monday-4/
#development #niche #glitches #MonsterMaze #niche #UnusedContent #zelda

SGDQ 2026 Begins Sunday
It's one of those two times of year again. Games Done Quick, the bi-annual week-long charity speedrunning marathon, begins at 12:30 PM ("Noon Thirty") Eastern Time on Sunday, July 5th, that's tomorrow. The day after today, the 250th occurrence of that particular US holiday some people make a fuss about.

This one is SGDQ, where the S stands f
https://setsideb.com/sgdq-2026-begins-sunday/
#indies #news #niche #retro #2026 #gdq #indie #news #niche #retro #speedrun

SGDQ 2026 Begins Sunday
It's one of those two times of year again. Games Done Quick, the bi-annual week-long charity speedrunning marathon, begins at 12:30 PM ("Noon Thirty") Eastern Time on Sunday, July 5th, that's tomorrow. The day after today, the 250th occurrence of that particular US holiday some people make a fuss about.

This one is SGDQ, where the S stands f
https://setsideb.com/sgdq-2026-begins-sunday/
#indies #news #niche #retro #2026 #gdq #indie #news #niche #retro #speedrun

SGDQ 2026 Begins Sunday
It's one of those two times of year again. Games Done Quick, the bi-annual week-long charity speedrunning marathon, begins at 12:30 PM ("Noon Thirty") Eastern Time on Sunday, July 5th, that's tomorrow. The day after today, the 250th occurrence of that particular US holiday some people make a fuss about.

This one is SGDQ, where the S stands f
https://setsideb.com/sgdq-2026-begins-sunday/
#indies #news #niche #retro #2026 #gdq #indie #news #niche #retro #speedrun

1960s Navy Training Film on Computers
Surprise! Today's post is about a video from Periscope Films from sixty years ago on the fundamental building blocks of computers from way back then. Right off we're told that computers no longer rely on primative things like electromechanical relays (gags) or vacuum tubes (wretches). NOW computers are
https://setsideb.com/1960s-navy-training-film-on-computers/
#niche #retro #DigitalComputerTechniques #LogicGates #niche #PeriscopeFilms #retro #USNavy

Extra: Four Bluesky Image Posts, Sure
It's a bit light, maybe, to be a day's sole post, so I'm throwing this in as an extra. I was looking through my saved post list on Bluesky and found a few entertaining images that speak to me. Largely they say, "@!#?@!", just like Q*bert does. Please enjoy, if you are capable of that. I won't hold it against you if you aren't. Links are provided so that you can follow thes
https://setsideb.com/six-bluesky-image-posts-sure/
#niche #art #Bluesky #niche

Ribbie: Real Baseball in 8-Bit Form
We still mourn the end of Blaseball, which sustained some people's hunger for a sports-like communal experience during Covid lockdown, but can understand that without everyone staying at home it wasn't possible to sustain it.

It's not Blaseball, but kind of similar in a way, if you look at it sideways and with unfocused eyes, is Ribbie, which takes real
https://setsideb.com/ribbie-real-baseball-in-8-bit-form/
#niche #baseball #niche #Ribbie #sports

Ribbie: Real Baseball in 8-Bit Form
We still mourn the end of Blaseball, which sustained some people's hunger for a sports-like communal experience during Covid lockdown, but can understand that without everyone staying at home it wasn't possible to sustain it.

It's not Blaseball, but kind of similar in a way, if you look at it sideways and with unfocused eyes, is Ribbie, which takes real
https://setsideb.com/ribbie-real-baseball-in-8-bit-form/
#niche #baseball #niche #Ribbie #sports

High-Level Minesweeper Tactics by Mine Bouy
Mine Bouy is a sporadically-posting Minesweeper enthusiast who posts interesting strategies sometimes, including one video about dealing with one of the most frustrating, yet sadly common, events in playing that game: "fifty-fifties," or, situations where you have a choice of two spaces to reveal, an
https://setsideb.com/high-level-minesweeper-by-mine-bouy/
#niche #FiftyFifties #MineBouy #minesweeper #MinesweeperOnline #niche #puzzle #strategy

High-Level Minesweeper Tactics by Mine Bouy
Mine Bouy is a sporadically-posting Minesweeper enthusiast who posts interesting strategies sometimes, including one video about dealing with one of the most frustrating, yet sadly common, events in playing that game: "fifty-fifties," or, situations where you have a choice of two spaces to reveal, an
https://setsideb.com/high-level-minesweeper-by-mine-bouy/
#niche #FiftyFifties #MineBouy #minesweeper #MinesweeperOnline #niche #puzzle #strategy

Warp Point: A Webring for Gaming Things
All the OldWeb is NewWeb again. This is just to inform you of warppoint.games, a new directory and webring devoted to game-related content! Set Side B is listed there, and there's a new link to it in our own sidebar.

There's already a good number of links to explore, so take a look when you have a moment!
https://setsideb.com/warp-point-a-webring-for-gaming-things/
#news #niche #directory #news #niche #WarpPoint #webring

Nicole Express on Throwaway Arcade Games
Now here's something fascinating I had not heard of before Nicole Express recently wrote about it. Because of a law in Japan it was (maybe still is?) illegal to sell an arcade cabinet without a game in it.

When the market for replacement cabinets opene
https://setsideb.com/nicole-express-on-throwaway-arcade-games/
#arcade #niche #retro #arcade #DottoriKun #konami #MiniVaders #niche #nicoleexpress #retro #sega #taito #TargetPanic #ThrowawayGames

Richard Garriott Getting Ultima’s Copyrights Back
It's been going around the gaming bigsites (PC Gamer, Time Extension, Kotaku, Eurogamer and others) that due to a quirk of US copyright law Richard Garriott, who begin the Ultima series in June 1981, may finally be getting back the rights to his now-ancient series from the corporate behemot
https://setsideb.com/richard-garriott-getting-ultima-copyrights-back/
#niche #retro #ea #niche #Origin #remakes #retro #richardgarriott #rpg #ultima

The CRPG Addict Plays The Original MUD
MUDs, and their sibling games MUCKs and MOOs, now almost forgotten except among a rapidly-aging userbase, used to be the biggest gaming draw on the internet. When MMORPGs became big, it was largely by using the lessons of MUDs and applying them to a 3D graphical world with action gameplay. Everquest (admit it, you ha
https://setsideb.com/the-crpg-addict-plays-the-original-mud/
#niche #retro #crpg #crpgaddict #mud #niche #retro #TheDigitalAntiquarian

The Last Year of Animal Crossing
I was just looking through Hunter S's video on the holiday glitches of Gamecube Animal Crossing (11 minutes). By "holiday," it means the winter holiday, and the various weird things that are possible during this season, like using snowballs to get pushed out of bounds into the ocean, getting a dummy item due to a data error when playing games with vi
https://setsideb.com/the-last-year-of-animal-crossing/
#niche #animalcrossing #bugs #limits #niche #winter

Early Web Links
If you've been reading us for a while, you'll know that I have an inordinate fondness for the early days of this here World Wide Web. I have become disenchanted with social media, the infinite scroll, and not just Web 3.0, but even Web 2.0. React.js and other frameworks. Gimmie that good old HTML religion. You can have some CSS if you promise not to go crazy with it.

You might
https://setsideb.com/early-web-links/
#niche #EarlyWebLinks #indie #niche #oldweb #web #web10

Multilink Monday 6/15/26: Indie Web, Apple IIs & GenAI Backlash
As often happens, I find out about something cool right as it ending, and so it is with Good Internet Magazine. However its archives are still up at the moment! There's cool things to find there like Build The Web You Want To See. I found out about it from this post on brennan.day,
https://setsideb.com/multilink-monday-3/
#multilink #news #niche #a2central #appleii #GoodInternet #JuicedGS #LongHorizon #multilink #news #niche

Who Owns Softdisk and Big Blue Disk Now?
I've talked here before about my efforts to preserve and make available the archives of the long-lived disk magazine Loadstar. Please forgive me for linking to that once again, but sales of it help me obtain food: Loadstar Compleat. If you want to see more past
https://setsideb.com/who-owns-softdisk-and-big-blue-disk/
#niche #retro #bigbluedisk #CatacombGames #FlatRock #GamersEdge #loadstar #niche #preservation #retro #softdisk #SoftdiskPublishing

Who Owns Softdisk and Big Blue Disk Now?
I've talked here before about my efforts to preserve and make available the archives of the long-lived disk magazine Loadstar. Please forgive me for linking to that once again, but sales of it help me obtain food: Loadstar Compleat. If you want to see more past
https://setsideb.com/who-owns-softdisk-and-big-blue-disk/
#niche #retro #bigbluedisk #CatacombGames #FlatRock #GamersEdge #loadstar #niche #preservation #retro #softdisk #SoftdiskPublishing

Who Owns Softdisk and Big Blue Disk Now?
I've talked here before about my efforts to preserve and make available the archives of the long-lived disk magazine Loadstar. Please forgive me for linking to that once again, but sales of it help me obtain food: Loadstar Compleat. If you want to see more past
https://setsideb.com/who-owns-softdisk-and-big-blue-disk/
#niche #retro #bigbluedisk #CatacombGames #FlatRock #GamersEdge #loadstar #niche #preservation #retro #softdisk #SoftdiskPublishing

Declan Chidlow’s Rundown of Every Console Web Browser
Over on the site vale.rocks Declan Chidlow has written up a complete rundown of every console web browser, and it's certain to spark memories in many of you. Including web browsers in consoles used to be a useful way for a company to distinguish their
https://setsideb.com/declan-chidlows-rundown-of-every-console-web-browser/
#niche #browsers #CDi #DeclanChidlow #microsoft #niche #nintendo #Pippin #sega #sony #ValeRocks #worldwideweb

Declan Chidlow’s Rundown of Every Console Web Browser
Over on the site vale.rocks Declan Chidlow has written up a complete rundown of every console web browser, and it's certain to spark memories in many of you. Including web browsers in consoles used to be a useful way for a company to distinguish their
https://setsideb.com/declan-chidlows-rundown-of-every-console-web-browser/
#niche #browsers #CDi #DeclanChidlow #microsoft #niche #nintendo #Pippin #sega #sony #ValeRocks #worldwideweb

Declan Chidlow’s Rundown of Every Console Web Browser
Over on the site vale.rocks Declan Chidlow has written up a complete rundown of every console web browser, and it's certain to spark memories in many of you. Including web browsers in consoles used to be a useful way for a company to distinguish their
https://setsideb.com/declan-chidlows-rundown-of-every-console-web-browser/
#niche #browsers #CDi #DeclanChidlow #microsoft #niche #nintendo #Pippin #sega #sony #ValeRocks #worldwideweb

The First Console RPG
Proclaiming something for sure in the realm of vidyagaems is just asking to be challenged and possibly humbled. Yet it seems likely that the first true video RPG, as pointed out by -Eclipse14- in this video (10½ minutes), is the Atari 2600/Supercharger game Dragonstomper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_VVzQ0K0Q

I have played
https://setsideb.com/the-first-console-rpg/
#niche #retro #2600 #Arcadia #Dragonstomper #niche #retro #rpg #Starpath #Supercharger

A quotation from Douglas Adams

It’s important to remember that the relationship between different media tends to be complementary. When new media arrive they don’t necessarily replace or eradicate previous types. Though we should perhaps observe a half second silence for the eight-track — there that’s done. What usually happens is that older media have to shuffle about a bit to make space for the new one and its particular advantages. Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies — what television did kill was the cinema newsreel.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/29723/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #media #news #progress #radio #technology #television #books #niche

A quotation from Douglas Adams

It’s important to remember that the relationship between different media tends to be complementary. When new media arrive they don’t necessarily replace or eradicate previous types. Though we should perhaps observe a half second silence for the eight-track — there that’s done. What usually happens is that older media have to shuffle about a bit to make space for the new one and its particular advantages. Radio did not kill books and television did not kill radio or movies — what television did kill was the cinema newsreel.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Broadcast (2010-10-11), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Future, ep. 2, “Publishing,” BBC Radio 4

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/29723/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #media #news #progress #radio #technology #television #books #niche

Notes on Nintendo Direct 6/9/26
Oh joy, it's another Nintendo Direct, full of games I don't have much interest in.

In the past I've done brief takes on every game in a Direct, but I feel like this time I'd be reduced to either saying the same thing about many of them that I've said before, or else be forced to r
https://setsideb.com/notes-on-nintendo-direct-6-9-26/
#indies #niche #BigWalk #Deltarune #FinalFantasyResonance #indie #niche #nintendodirect #RhythmHeavenGroove #SwitchSports

Indentifying Luck in Mario Party 10
It's been a small eon, but ZoomZike is finally back with the latest in his epic series of video deep dives, Identifying Luck in Mario Party, with a 2½ hour entry on Mario Party 10, being for the Wii U probably one of the least played titles in the series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqFDaocSvB4

https://setsideb.com/indentifying-luck-in-mario-party-10/
#niche #boardgames #hudsonsoft #IdentifyingLuckInMarioParty #niche #nintendo #wiiu #zoomzike

Indentifying Luck in Mario Party 10
It's been a small eon, but ZoomZike is finally back with the latest in his epic series of video deep dives, Identifying Luck in Mario Party, with a 2½ hour entry on Mario Party 10, being for the Wii U probably one of the least played titles in the series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqFDaocSvB4

https://setsideb.com/indentifying-luck-in-mario-party-10/
#niche #boardgames #hudsonsoft #IdentifyingLuckInMarioParty #niche #nintendo #wiiu #zoomzike

It warms my heart that there is such a thing as “Sirencon 2026” and that people basically lost their minds when a giant hurricane siren came into the grounds on a trailer.

#sirencon #niche #hobby

Source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/p/DZObcvEOhgS/

It warms my heart that there is such a thing as “Sirencon 2026” and that people basically lost their minds when a giant hurricane siren came into the grounds on a trailer.

#sirencon #niche #hobby

Source: hxxps://www.instagram.com/p/DZObcvEOhgS/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Karlitschek/116710700616992391

Nice! Good to see that #foss and #opensource endeavors are getting some tracking in generic #society and is no longer an #IT #geek #niche!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Karlitschek/116710700616992391

Nice! Good to see that #foss and #opensource endeavors are getting some tracking in generic #society and is no longer an #IT #geek #niche!

birthbydrip’s Cray-Cray Taxi Strategies
I love Crazy Taxi! I think it's one of the best arcade games Sega's ever made, and obsessing over getting Crazy Licenses and beyond helped me get through the long sad years after my mother's passing. I was once competitive on the Crazy Taxi scoreboards at Twin Galaxy, getting a score that would have been (if I had sent in
https://setsideb.com/birthbydrips-cray-cray-taxi-strategies/
#niche #birthbydrip #crazytaxi #neocities #niche #sega #strategy

FEMICOM
Yesterday's post had a link to FamiBro, and while trying to balance male and female representations of gaming websites equally is subjective and doesn't make much sense (especially since FamiBro doesn't seem very bro-y), it does allow me to make a largely meaningless introduction to a blog post about the website FEMICOM. There, done!

Rachel Simone Weil's FEMICOM is
https://setsideb.com/femicom/
#niche #AnnaAnthropy #femicom #girls #museum #niche #RachelSimoneWeil #website

I come here every so often and mastodon still reminds a place I like. It will probably never take off like facebook or Twitter and I'm fine with that. tech.lgbt has consistently been a good platform for me. I appreciate all the good the mods have done here. Especially condemning meta from merging with us. #tech.lgbt #mastodon #twitter #meta #niche #socialmedia

I come here every so often and mastodon still reminds a place I like. It will probably never take off like facebook or Twitter and I'm fine with that. tech.lgbt has consistently been a good platform for me. I appreciate all the good the mods have done here. Especially condemning meta from merging with us. #tech.lgbt #mastodon #twitter #meta #niche #socialmedia

@Play: Larn Turns 40
Larn, created by Noah Morgan, may his name be sung by the bards forever, is a venerable classic roguelike game, from the same era as Moria and the first Hacks. It's always been more obscure than the other games but was still popular, and it's still played today. atsb, aka Gibbon, made a GitHu
https://setsideb.com/larn-turns-40-can-run-everywhere/
#play #niche #retro #roguelike #play #ascii #ClassicRoguelike #Gibbon #Larn #niche #NoahMorgan #retro #roguelike #terminal

@Play: Larn Turns 40
Larn, created by Noah Morgan, may his name be sung by the bards forever, is a venerable classic roguelike game, from the same era as Moria and the first Hacks. It's always been more obscure than the other games but was still popular, and it's still played today. atsb, aka Gibbon, made a GitHu
https://setsideb.com/larn-turns-40-can-run-everywhere/
#play #niche #retro #roguelike #play #ascii #ClassicRoguelike #Gibbon #Larn #niche #NoahMorgan #retro #roguelike #terminal

#Dune, the game, reports that 80% of players are ignoring #pvp

#niche

The Results of 65 Games of Party House
Long-time readers of this blog know that I've played a lot of Party House, game #25 in UFO 50. I'm not the best player at it, I've heard there's some with a random scenario win streak of over 130, but I have gotten up to 25. I wrote a strategy guide for it that's one of the most searched-for pages here. In the time s
https://setsideb.com/60-games-of-party-house/
#indies #niche #indie #Mossmouth #niche #PartyHouse #seeds #spreadsheet #strategy #Ufo50

The Results of 65 Games of Party House
Long-time readers of this blog know that I've played a lot of Party House, game #25 in UFO 50. I'm not the best player at it, I've heard there's some with a random scenario win streak of over 130, but I have gotten up to 25. I wrote a strategy guide for it that's one of the most searched-for pages here. In the time s
https://setsideb.com/60-games-of-party-house/
#indies #niche #indie #Mossmouth #niche #PartyHouse #seeds #spreadsheet #strategy #Ufo50

The Results of 65 Games of Party House
Long-time readers of this blog know that I've played a lot of Party House, game #25 in UFO 50. I'm not the best player at it, I've heard there's some with a random scenario win streak of over 130, but I have gotten up to 25. I wrote a strategy guide for it that's one of the most searched-for pages here. In the time s
https://setsideb.com/60-games-of-party-house/
#indies #niche #indie #Mossmouth #niche #PartyHouse #seeds #spreadsheet #strategy #Ufo50